Bug#898086: libequinox-osgi-java: Does not install symlinks into /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins

[Nick Morrott]

Source: libequinox-osgi-java
Version: 3.9.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Control: affects eclipse

Dear Maintainer,

The separation of the libequinox-osgi-java binary package from the eclipse
source appears to break fresh installations of eclipse.

On a fresh installation of eclipse on buster/sid (using a supported JDK
version), it is apparent that eclipse is unable to locate
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.1.dist.jar (configured in
/usr/lib/eclipse/configuration/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info).

On stretch (3.8.1-10), the relevant symlinks between
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins and
/usr/share/java are present.

On buster/sid, no symlink is created to /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins,
which causes eclipse to immediately crash.

Manually installing the following symlink resolves the issue:

cd /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins
ln -s ../../../share/java/org.eclipse.osgi-3.9.1.jar
org.eclipse.osgi_3.8.1.dist.jar



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled